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If you're going to avoid psychology, do it because of the replication crisis. What is being called "AI" should play no role on that. Here's why.

Let us suppose for a moment that some AI 7y from now is able to accurately diagnose and treat psychological issues that someone might have. Even then the AI in question is not a moral agent that can be held responsible for its actions, and that is essential when you're dealing with human lives. In other words you'll still need psychologists picking the output of said AI and making informed decisions on what the patient should [not] do.

Furthermore, I do not think that those "AI systems" will be remotely as proficient at human tasks in, say, a decade, as some people are claiming that they will be. AI is a misnomer, those systems are not intelligent. Model-based text generators are a great example of that (and relevant in your case): play a bit with ChatGPT or Bard, and look at their output in a somewhat consistent way (without cherry picking the hits and ignoring the misses). Then you'll notice that they don't really understand anything - they're reproducing grammatical patterns regardless of their content. (Just like they were programmed to.)

Most likely. They're bound to appear everywhere where you got human beings.

With a difference: in Reddit, if the admins were to push some specific agenda and try to manipulate you, you won't be able to avoid it, because they control the place. In Lemmy however no group controls the whole of the Lemmyverse, so if you wish to avoid some specific shill/group of shills, you can do it by hopping into another instance.

TL;DW: a fight between "we're developing AGI, and it'll doom us!" vs. "we're developing AGI, and it'll make us rich!". With both sides assuming that they're actually developing something smarter than a parrot (nope) that thinks that oranges are passive and potatoes are active.

I actually watched it. I'm a sucker for drama.

It sounds like a lot but it's roughly the same weight in banana peels and sugar, it's typical for this sort of jam. For reference: you could sub the peels for the same weight in strawberries, and the recipe still works.

EDIT: it is by no means something healthy to eat in large quantities. It's a caloric bomb, just like any jam. But it works great as a bread spread, the banana peels won't go to waste, and it packs a lot of potassium too. (Most potassium from bananas is in the peel, not in the flesh.)

I also have a banana cake recipe if anyone is interested. It uses the whole banana but you can tweak it to use just the peels.

You can also make a bread spread with them.

You could also cover them in syrup and fry them, but that requires a lot of peels, and unlike the recipe above you can't freeze the peels, it gets a weird texture.

Dough, freshly kneaded, still unshaped:
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Loaf, after baking:
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Main holidays that my family commemorates are Easter (lunch), Christmas (dinner, lunch), New Year (dinner, lunch). They usually include things like this:

• Meat: roasted ham, roasted chicken, or some barbecue
• Carb 1: rice pilaf, or a simple white rice. Got to have it because of my mum, otherwise she bugs us to no end.
• Carb 2: cornmeal or yucca meal farofa, usually filled with sausage bits. If we're roasting chicken it goes inside the chicken.
• Salad 1: potato-mayo salad, made with homemade mayo
• Salad 2: green leaves, white cheese, bacon bits, some dressing
• Desserts: fruits salad, gelatin, tiramisu, ice cream

For reference, I'm in the Southern Cone; that's why the desserts are biased towards colder stuff. (Christmas and New Year are hellish here.)

EDIT: aaaaaaand now I noticed that I'm a muppet and the question was about who or where, not what. My bad.

I usually commemorate those holidays either in my home or my sister's home, with the family and one or more friends. Making the meal is a big deal for us, and even the cats get parts of it (Kika gets shredded chicken breast, Siegfrieda gets some of the yoghurt of the salad dressing.) Usually around 8 people.

People who hate sbmm hate it because they have to play with player of their skill level

I don't rule out that a lot of players simply want to stomp bad players, but that is not the only reason why people hate SBMM. The article mentions other two - long wait times and lack of variability. I believe that chess-like odds solve both.

And, sure, it wouldn't solve the "WAAAH I WANNA DESTROY NOOBZ!11 LOL LMAO" "issue", but... is it even fixable?

In addition to what other users said: quality matters. 90% of the content of any subreddit is trash, and bots are unable to sieve the 10% of good stuff from that trash. As such, most [all?] bots automatically bringing content from Reddit are bound to litter Lemmy and make it worse, not better.

The same applies to most users there, too. There are a few rational people there, and we should attract them to Lemmy if/when possible, but most redditors are dead weight and trash, and do a great favour to Lemmy if they stay in Reddit.

My guesses:

• Toner's role is being underplayed by the video. She's potentially calling Altman out, for underrating the dangers of AI.
• At least Altman is lying about something - about how much OpenAI is going towards AGI in the short term. The above might've bought the bullshit fully, while Sutskever knows that it's bullshit.
• I'm not sure if the board is also lying or not.
• The boiling point was likely OpenAI potentially receiving some cash grant from some scummy party, that would be in a moral grey area considering the "non-"profit goals of the company.
• Everybody will get a bit more of free popcorn for a while. 🍿 This mess is far from over.

Chess solved this problem a long side ago, with odds - a stronger player may remove pawn(s) or piece(s) from their side of the board, to give the weaker player a winning chance (and to give themself a challenge). And it's completely transparent (well, you do see the initial board state, right?).

With some good design, plenty multiplayer games could implement the same idea - giving the more skilled player a bigger cooldown, less HP, or perhaps even restricting a few combos deemed too powerful.

In other words (as I agree with you): they don't generate direct profit for YouTube, but they generate value, or the long-term ability to generate profit.

And a long-term stable business should focus first and foremost on its value, because predatory profiting (i.e. profit obtained in a way that reduces the platform's value) doesn't last very long.

In the case of those dwarf elephants it's because they were smaller, so they got a bigger surface area per weight, and lost heat faster. Perhaps also because, while Sicily is hot in comparison with continental Europe, it's still colder than Southeast Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa.

[I know that you're joking, sorry for the serious answer.]

Without taking into account the environmental impact and viability: Sicilian dwarf elephants. Come on, 1m short elephants, hairier (i.e. fluffier) than their African and Asian counterparts? I want it!

Bonus points: capybaras are native where I live, and a common occurrence in parks. Now imagine those small elephants, plus some capybaras: chilling under the grey sky, taking a bath in the lake in warmer days, gathering together in colder days... come on, it's cuteness overload!

Assumer, my comment gives you no grounds to claim anything about my emotional state.

However, your comment does give me grounds to say that you're mostly dead weight here, and that you'd do everyone in Kbin and Lemmy a favour if you stayed in Reddit.

I believe that most people are here due to the APIcalypse, like you.

And... really, before that, this place was a ghost town. Then you had all that huge influx of newbies, so Lemmy became actually usable, albeit messy. Now things settled down and, although plenty users still behave like they were in Reddit, I feel like Lemmy already has its own culture.

I always think of the Koopa kid

I usually think of this:
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[nougat@kbin.social] No idea, I don’t use it.

Your very comment, that boils down to "I have nothing to contribute but since I'm an entitled prick I'll still add noise to the discussion" is proof of its own inaccuracy - you're submitting a[n extremely insightless] comment to a Lemmy thread, created by a Lemmy user in a Lemmy community, while interacting with Lemmy users. You are using Lemmy as a community, even if not using the software.

Reddit event from July 2023, when Steve "Greedy Pigboy" Huffman decided to demand exorbitant amounts of money for API access, effectively killing most third party applications used to access the site from a phone, and neutering the leftover. It had a huge impact on Lemmy, for obvious reasons.

At least in a short time frame (2w? 1m?) I don't think that Lemmy got meaningfully better or worse. However from APIcalypse times to now it got way better.

I don't know (...or care, really) about USA so I'll speak on more general grounds.

There's a lot of stuff in social media that makes it a great soapbox for social manipulation:

• low cost, wide reaching: it's easy to be heard
• decontextualisation: it gives more room for assumers¹ to do their shit, and make an incorrect context out of nowhere.
• virality: it's easy to start a witch hunt. Cue to the pitchfork emporium / Twitter MC of the day.
• upvote/like-based systems: people don't upvote your content (increasing its visibility) because you're right, they do it because you say it confidently.
• on the Internet, nobody knows that you're a dog: concern trolling made easy.

Now look at what @startle@toast.ooo said: "Dunno man, seems like it might be the fascists.". IMO that user is being spot on, those five things make social media specially easy to manipulate for fascists². And they're mostly the ones creating this dichotomisation of society³, because that's how they're able to congregate the nutjobs into a political discourse. Suddenly the village idiot doesn't simply say "they're hiding aliens from us" (stupid, but morally OK), the discourse becomes "the Jews are hiding aliens from us" (stupid and Antisemitic).

1. By "assumers" I mean individuals who are quick to draw conclusions based on little to no reasoning, evidence, or thought. This plague exists since the dawn of time, it's just that decontextualisation gives them more room to assume shit out of nowhere.
2. Fascists often babble about "virtue signalling", without realising that themselves are prone to signal adherence to their stupid beliefs. They don't want to be in the receiving end of their own witch hunts.
3. By "society" I mean at the very least Western Europe plus the Americas; probably more. It is not exclusive to USA.